Flip the Switch

AEE Institute's work is driven by a deep commitment to Flip the Switch on America's energy system. We have allowed our energy infrastructure and transportation sector to become inefficient and outdated. The Flip the Switch campaign will provide the thought leadership and analysis that policy makers urgently need to modernize the power sector and electrify transportation.

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Our Top Priorities

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Modernize the Power Sector

Much of our energy infrastructure has become old, inefficient, and outdated.

Advanced energy technologies are cost competitive today

A shift to high-efficiency clean energy will boost our economy

Electrify Transportation

Electrification of our transportation system is bringing profound change to our cities and power infrastructure.

AEE Institute educates policy makers about the advanced energy technologies that are available now to help us meet our energy needs.

Mission and Vision

The mission of AEE Institute is to raise awareness of the public benefits and opportunities of advanced energy. AEE Institute and its affiliate AEE, the business voice of advanced energy, have a shared vision of a prosperous world that runs on secure, clean, affordable energy.

Board of Directors

Tim Healy

Co-Founder and Former CEO, EnerNOC

Tim Healy is an experienced Executive Chairman & CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology, energy, and managed services industry. Tim co-founded EnerNOC in 2001 and served as its Chairman and CEO until its sale to Enel in 2017. Prior to EnerNOC, Tim worked in the Energy Technology Laboratory for Northern Power Systems, and held positions with Merrill Lynch, International Fuel Cells (then a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation), and the venture capital firm Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

In his nearly seventeen years at the helm of EnerNOC, Tim led its growth from a promising clean energy startup to a publicly-traded energy management leader, culminating in its combination with the global energy company Enel. In 2012, Tim was named "CEO of the Year" by the Mass Technology Leadership Council.

Tim currently sits on Board of Directors of the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC), the Boston Green Ribbon Commission (GRC), and the Board of Trustees for the New England Aquarium, and formerly served on TechNet's Executive Committee and on the Board of Directors of Genability, Inc. and WeSpire, Inc. He is an advisor to several privately held growth companies.

Tim graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Government modified with Economics, and received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Kim Jordan

Co-founder and Executive Chair, New Belgium Brewing

Kim Jordan, co-founder and ex-CEO of New Belgium Brewing, has developed expertise at the intersection of business, the environment and community building to create one of the most respected craft breweries and innovative businesses in America.

Employing humanistic philosophy that is integrated with a systems perspective, tenants of her training in Social Work, Kim has guided and influenced New Belgium’s culture with progressive policies like employee-ownership, open book management, environmental stewardship and philanthropic giving. In her twenty-plus years as an entrepreneur, Kim has had the opportunity to speak front of thousands of people in the business, nonprofit and academic worlds about how to create a vibrant and rewarding work culture that enhances the company’s bottom line as well as her coworker’s and customer’s lives.

Kim is a Director on the Board for the Brewer’s Association. She is Ex Officio Board Member for the Beer Institute and 1% For the Planet. Named a 2009 Trailblazer by Entrepreneur Magazine, she called craft brewers to action in her 2003 keynote address at the craft brewer’s conference to double the share of U.S. beers sales to 10%. In 2014, craft had an 11% share of the market. In her 2013 keynote to the industry, Kim’s message was about quality and unity of the brand collectively owned by all craft brewers- craft brewing.

Recognizing her tireless commitment to environmental stewardship, Kim is a member of Colorado Governor Hickenlooper’s Renewable Energy Authority Board, and has received the Governor’s Excellence in Renewable Energy Award from Colorado University, Denver. A Colorado University Wirth Chair awardee and EPA Green Power Business Leadership awardee, Kim negotiated New Belgium’s transition to wind powered electricity through an employee vote and has overseen the implementation of the Company’s private solar array at the Fort Collins facility.

After 25 years of growing and leading New Belgium, 15 as the company’s CEO, Kim is moving into the role of Executive Chair of the New Belgium Board of Directors. She’s looking forward to watching her management peers and coworkers take New Belgium into new and exciting territory. Kim will continue to be involved in New Belgium at the strategic level and to advocate for progressive business practices while she works with her family at the New Belgium Family Foundation, and relearns how to live at a more relaxed pace!

Bill Ritter, Jr.

Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE)

Bill Ritter, Jr. is the founder and director of the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE) at Colorado State University which launched on February 1, 2011. The Center employs an assistant director, three senior policy advisors, an executive assistant and a team of student researchers.

The Center works directly with governors, legislators, regulators, planners, policymakers, and other decision makers. It provides technical assistance to help officials create the policies and practices that will facilitate America’s transition to a clean-energy economy. Ritter authored a book that was published in 2016 entitled, Powering Forward – What Everyone Should Know About America’s Energy Revolution.

Ritter was elected as Colorado's 41st governor in 2006, and built consensus to tackle some of the state's biggest challenges. During his four-year term, Ritter established Colorado as a national and international leader in clean energy, by building a new energy economy. He signed 57 new energy bills into law, including a 30% Renewable Portfolio Standard and a Clean Air Clean Jobs Act that replaced nearly a gigawatt of coal-fired generation with natural gas. In total, the Colorado new energy economy created thousands of new jobs.

Ritter is the chair of the Board of Directors of the Energy Foundation and a senior fellow and member of the board of directors of the Advanced Energy Economy Institute. Ritter earned his bachelor's degree in political science from Colorado State University (1978) and his law degree from the University of Colorado (1981). With his wife Jeannie, he operated a food distribution and nutrition center in Zambia. He then served as Denver's district attorney from 1993 to January 2005.

Matt Rogers - Board Chair

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Nest Labs

Matt is a builder at heart. He started at Apple, building the software team for 10 generations of the iPod. He was one of the first engineers on the original iPhone and involved in the development of 5 iPhone generations, and the first iPad.

As co-founder of Nest, Matt built the team that built the first machine learning thermostat. And by doing so, has built the leading connected home brand — Nest.

Hemant Taneja

Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners and Co-Founder of Advanced Energy Economy

Hemant Taneja is Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, a multi-billion dollar investment firm with offices in Cambridge, New York and Palo Alto. Mr. Taneja leads the global energy practice for General Catalyst and serves on the boards of a diverse set of energy companies. He has broad experience in developing advanced energy ecosystems, having co-founded and chaired the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC), a nonprofit focused on advancing New England's energy economy. Under his leadership, NECEC worked with Governor Patrick’s administration to develop a comprehensive slate of advanced energy legislation in Massachusetts. He was also a founding board member of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, as Governor appointee.

Prior to joining General Catalyst in 2002, he was founder, Chairman and CEO of a mobile software company that was acquired.

Mr. Taneja is a graduate of MIT, earning an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering.

Edward D. (Ted) White

Partner, Moye White LLP

Edward D. (Ted) White is a ‘name’ partner and Management Committee member at the Denver-based law firm Moye White LLP. He is Co-Chair of his firm’s Advanced Energy Group, and his legal practice focuses on complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and financings.

Ted is the Managing Partner of Fahr LLC, an umbrella entity for an extensive business, policy, political and philanthropic effort. He is also the founder and Advisory Board Chair of Estabrook Funds, a fund of global, multistrategy absolute return hedge funds.

Ted’s civic leadership has included Chairman of the Boettcher Foundation, one of the largest privately endowed grant-making organizations in Colorado, Chair of Rocky Mountain Institute, Founding Chair of Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, and Director of the SASB Foundation.

About Us

A 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization promoting greater public understanding of advanced energy and its economic potential